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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project |
Date: | Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:35:24 -0600 (CST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, NightStrike wrote:
If you include src/more/Makefile.am into src/Makefile.am (a perfectly valid thing to do), you will be unpleasantly surprised that src/more/Makefile.am has to actually know where it is in the source tree. It needs lines like this:
This is something I complained about long ago. It is the main impediment to creating a non-recursive Automake project. It is something that Automake could have easily fixed given that it writes the template makefiles using Perl and can easily perform path substitutions. I don't understand why there was resistance (or profound lack of interest) in fixing this at the time.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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